COMMON HALF HOLIDAY
TARANAKI PETITION SATURDAY SUGGESTED (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. A move to institute the Saturday halfholiday in all towns in Taranaki was made, 'to-night, when a petition was sent 1,. Parliament asking for an official determination of the half-day. Some towns, including; Hawern. Patoa. Opunake, and Alanaia, have already made the change to Saturday. The problem may be settled by Order-in-Couneil, If the Government is satisfied that a exeat majority of the people desire the change. Ne.v Plymouth lias had the Saturday '■-■T-holiday for many years and {lie varying days on which the holiday has been bserved in other parts of the province has been confusing to business and sport.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19121, 16 September 1936, Page 12
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114COMMON HALF HOLIDAY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19121, 16 September 1936, Page 12
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